‘I can still smell the sweat and stale cigarette stink off his breath’ – Fr Brian D’Arcy on his childhood abuse by a religious Brother

‘I can still smell the sweat and stale cigarette stink off his breath’ – Fr Brian D’Arcy on his childhood abuse by a religious Brother

Five years ago, I began a charity fundraising campaign. Almost immediately, the pandemic came, and all my plans for events had to be severely curtailed. I was despondent.